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by geon 1y ago
> Now that it's only using one thread, it deadlocks, because the consumer is waiting to get something from the queue, and the producer is scheduled to run, but it has not run yet. Is the reason that the queue has a zero buffer size
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by geon 1y ago
It follows the spam economy. If you can use AI to generate thousands of "articles", some unlucky google user is bound to click on your link. When the price of articles is near zero, it is still profitable.
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by geon 1y ago
I did some iphone development around 2010. The interface builder in xcode was pretty powerful. You could set up multiple screens and hook them up to eachother with drag and drop.
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by geon 1y ago
When I did the same experiments in win98, the magic color was not bright green but #010000, the darkest possible red. Was this dependent on the OS? Or the driver?
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Fixing the C64 Bubble Bobble Continue Bug(geon.github.io)
3 points by geon 1y ago|1 comments
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by geon 1y ago
TL;DR: Fixed a bug in the C64 version of Bubble Bobble where the game ends even if you still have credits left. Now it only ends when you're actually out of credits. Did it by patching the raw binary. Also, there is a remastered versio
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by geon 1y ago
Yes. This is called ”natural order”.
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by geon 1y ago
Yes. I bought a 200€ laptop a decade ago. It was on clearance sale, so no backsies. It was so bad I couldn’t in good conscience ask for more than 50€ when I sold it like 2 days later. It was great on paper. But the quality of the touchpad w
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by geon 1y ago
It kind of annoys me when people just adds diacritics to fake swedish/ikea names. They are not for decoration, but makes it a completely different sound. How about the direct translation “snabbsortering”? Or even “kvicksortering”, to m
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by geon 1y ago
I don’t use any of those.
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by geon 1y ago
I’m probably exactly who you would classify as a ”leftist on reddit”. I haven’t seen a single comment on there celebrating.
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by geon 1y ago
You are fully capable of doing it to yourselves.
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by geon 1y ago
No developer job has yet been lost to AI. We are in a huge recession, and companies like to have an excuse to fire people that can be spun as a positive.
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by geon 1y ago
I just recently implemented my own parser combinator lib in typescript too. It was surprisingly simple in the end. This function parses a number in 6502 asm. So `255` in dec or `$ff` in hex: https://github.com/geon/du
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by geon 1y ago
This might be a clearer phrasing: "Parse and validate ONCE AND FOR ALL, instead of sprinkling validation everywhere you need to access the data." But I suppose it isn't as catchy.
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by geon 1y ago
Sure. Then you return that validated data structure from the parsing function and never touch the invalid data structure again. That's exactly what "Parse, don't validate" means.
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by geon 1y ago
This seems like a really weird stance. Who are you to dictate what language people should use? Why CLIs in particular?
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by geon 1y ago
Zig is open source, so the docs are pretty much a wiki. You can spend 5 minutes.
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by geon 1y ago
That Zig is pre 1.0 is a given. Not sure how you could take my statement as ”even post 1.0 releases don’t need docs.”
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by geon 1y ago
Isn’t the whole point of an external buffer that the function won’t need to allocate?
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by geon 1y ago
You can’t expect documentation this early. The new interface was just released.
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by geon 1y ago
Yes. For now, that effort is better spent writing clear test cases that can serve to illustrate the intended usage. While tests aren’t quite as good documentation as actual documentation, they are guaranteed to not be out of date.
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by geon 1y ago
While sweden has a lot of straight road stretches specifically designed to serve as emergency airfields, it is a lot easier to find 500 m of suitable road than 1600.
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by geon 1y ago
Yes, Draken and Viggen are officially named after the kite and the tufted duck, respectively. The names do however carry the other meanings as well. Draken means (the) kite, dragon and male duck. Viggen means (the) lightning and tufted du
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by geon 1y ago
If large air bases are hard to protect, wouldn’t the Gripen be good also for large countries?
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by geon 1y ago
I think it has built for years. There just hasn't been a usable UI.
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by geon 1y ago
Win98 was terrible. I used to reinstall it every month or so, as routine maintenance. Win2k was so much better it's not even comparable. XP had a bit of a rough start, but by sp3 it was a lot better than 2k. I skipped the other windows
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by geon 1y ago
It would be awesome if an ai could speculatively refactor sections of code to an exact equivalent where inconsistency stands out more. That way you could find bugs and make actual features more understandable.
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by geon 1y ago
Little of what you mention was evident before 2014.
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by geon 1y ago
Sounds great. I'd like to see more contextually meaningful refactoring tools. Like "Remove this dependency" or "Externalize this code with a callback". And refactoring shouldn't be done by generatively rewritin

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